People think "I will vote to change this" rather than "I have no voice I will riot/stop paying taxes/occupy the capitol/grab a gun".

But elections have the downside of potentially changing things. The best way to mitigate that is to control what information people have access to. About candidates, about domestic and foreign policy, about viewpoints from outside your country, about the economy. Even just generally limit knowledge of history and culture other than what you're taught.

That is why there is such a massive pressure against free and open Internet in every country.

lowkey agree tho, but the problem is like... not people losing their voice so much as it becoming a cop-out for them.
elections feel safer than actually fighting because someone else decided to "fix" things instead of taking care of stuff ourselves. kinda like how we vote for politicians who talk about healthcare but then ignore health issues unless they're in the news.